Assault: Convoy demo

The Convoy resembles popular train assault map from the original UT. This time we do not have moving train, but a number of vehicles moving along a canyon. Given that there are not a lot of tough graphics elements, but dozens of physics calculations, the level is more CPU dependent than other demos.

When talking about graphics cards’ speed, we should exclude 1024x768 resolution, as it shows CPU addiction along with quality of drivers. In 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 resolution we see ATI leading among the high-end graphics cards and very close performance of mainstream products by ATI and NVIDIA. Notice very positive S3 Graphics results and rather pale XGI’s.

With eye-candy enabled, ATI’s RADEON 9800 series reiterates its performance leaderships, while ATI’s 9600 series falls behind the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra that is the clear winner in mainstream.